Researcher
Johan Lagae
- Keywords:Belgian Congo, Colonial History, Architectural History, Construction History, Urban History
- Disciplines:Public history, Architectural history and theory, Studies of regions not elsewhere classified, Critical heritage, Heritage and cultural conservation, Historical sites and landscape heritage, Historiography, Architecture not elsewhere classified, African history, Building engineering not elsewhere classified, Landscape architecture not elsewhere classified
Affiliations
- Department of Architecture and urban planning (Department)
Member
From1 Feb 1994 → Today - Department of Architecture and urban planning (Department)
Responsible
From1 Feb 2020 → Today - Dean's Office of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (Administrative office)
Member
From1 Feb 2001 → 30 Jun 2001
Projects
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- Interior(ized) Frontiers. Spatializing colonial housing politics and domestic cultures in the former Dutch East Indies through a mobilization of the 'colonial archiveU+2019From1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project
- Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction HistoryFrom1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO EOS
- ArchHiv. An Archeology of Aids in Paris. Spaces, memories and viral sequences around the former Hôpital Claude Bernard.From1 Sep 2021 → TodayFunding: Other EU initiatives out of framework
- Borders, Mobilities and Landscapes. Mapping railway infrastructure in (post)colonial AfricaFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: VLIR-UOS ACROPOLIS (former O*platformen)
- Mapping the Invisible City. Spatial Manifestations of sub-Saharan African Diaspora in the mid-size city in Europe (the case of Belgium).From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2019Funding: FWO fellowships
- Building in Print. The Production of Architecture in 'Little Magazines' in Flanders and the Netherlands, 1918-1940.From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2019Funding: FWO fellowships
- Urban landscapes of colonial/postcolonial health care. Towards a spatial mapping of the performance of hospital infrastructure in Kinshasa, Mbandaka and Kisangani (DR Congo) from past to present (1920-2014)From1 Jan 2015 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: FWO research project
- Bureaucracy and Discourse in Everyday Architecture, 1930-1970: An IntroductionFrom1 Jan 2015 → 31 Dec 2015Funding: BOF - Other initiatives, FWO fellowships
- U+201CTout le Congo est un chantierU+201D. Re-assessing CongoU+2019s architectural history from 1918 till 1975 through a construction history approachFrom1 Jan 2015 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: FWO research project
- Belgium builds (1918-1969). Strategies, networks and discourses in/on the productionof Belgian State architectureFrom1 Jan 2012 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: FWO research project
Publications
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- History matters : authenticity and cultural guardianship(2022)Series: Basics
Authors: Johan Lagae, Philippe Meuser, Adil Dalbai
Pages: 138 - 143 - History matters : authenticity and cultural guardianship(2021)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Philipp Meuser, Adil Dalbai
Pages: 160 - 165 - Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)(2021)
Authors: Claudien Mulimilwa, Johan Lagae, Nicolas-Patience Basabose, Andrew Brose, Karine Guillevic, Stefan Krapp, Claudia Kruschwitz, Jean Molitor, Z. S. Strother, Rolf Westerheide, et al.
Pages: 232 - 313 - Infrastructure, paysages urbains et architecture : témoins du 'développement' ou instruments dU+2019une 'mise en valeur'?(2020)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Jacob Sabakinu Kivilu, Idesbald Goddeeris, Amandine Lauro, Guy Vanthemsche
Pages: 183 - 195 - Coloniser/décoloniser lU+2019espace : le paysage urbain de Kinshasa : entre histoire et mémoire(2020)Series: Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities
Authors: Johan Lagae, Jacob Sabakinu Kivilu, Elikia M'Bokolo
Pages: 273 - 290 - Cracks in the 'sanitary cordon' : hospital architecture an urban segregation in Lubumbashi, 1920-1960(2020)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Sofie Boonen, Maarten Liefooghe, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Elena Agudio, Kelly Krugman
Pages: 210 - 227 - Infrastructuur, stedelijke landschappen en architectuur : sporen van U+2018ontwikkelingU+2019 of instrumenten van U+2018exploitatieU+2019?(2020)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Jacob Sabakinu Kivilu, Idesbald Goddeeris, Amandine Lauro, Guy Vantemsche
Pages: 172 - 185 - Ruashi, a Pessac in Congo? On the design, inhabitation, and transformation of a 1950s neighborhood in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo(2020)
Authors: Sofie Boonen, Johan Lagae, Martina Ciganikova, Kirsten Rüther, Daniela Waldburger, Carl-Philipp Bodenstein
Pages: 66 - 97 - Note from the ABE editorial team(2019)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Ricardo Agarez, Tania Sengupta, Anoraadha Siddiqi, Rachel Lee
Number of pages: 1 - Spatial governmentality and everyday hospital life in colonial and postcolonial DR Congo(2019)Series: The Architext series
Authors: Simon De Nys-Ketels, Johan Lagae, Kristien Geenen, Luce Beeckmans, Trésor Lumfuankenda Bungiena, Daniel E. Coslett
Pages: 147 - 167